The 2019 Inter Games Football Tournament was an
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...
tournament which was held between 15 and 22 June 2019 in
Anglesey
Anglesey (; cy, (Ynys) Môn ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms a Local government in Wales, principal area known as the Isle of Anglesey, that includes Holy Island, Anglesey, Holy Island across the narrow Cymyran Strai ...
,
Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...
. It was organised due to the hosts of the
2019 Island Games
The XVIII Island Games (officially the ''2019 NatWest Island Games'') was held in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar between 6 and 12 July 2019. This was the second time that the territory has hosted the games, the first being in 199 ...
,
Gibraltar being unable to run a tournament due to lack of pitches. As
football is one of the most popular sports at the games it was decided to hold the matches elsewhere, albeit with the results not officially part of the Island Games history.
It was announced on 1 May 2018 that the Welsh island had been chosen as the preferred venue to host. In August of that year 12 clubs put forward their names to hold matches and the draw for both the men's and women's competitions were made on 19 November by
Wayne Hennessey
Wayne Robert Hennessey (born 24 January 1987) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Nottingham Forest and the Wales national team.
Hennessey's first professional games saw him set a new Footba ...
and
Osian Roberts
Osian Roberts is a Welsh football coach and former player who was most recently assistant manager at Crystal Palace.
In 2014 he was described in the media as "the most influential man in Welsh football."
Early life
Roberts was born in Anglesey, ...
. The sponsors of the games were Anglesey based
Huws Gray builders merchants.
Men's
The men's tournament will start as a group
Round-robin tournament
A round-robin tournament (or all-go-away-tournament) is a competition in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.''Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1971, G. & C. Me ...
followed by knock out games.
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Ranking of second-placed teams
Joining the three group winners in the semi-finals, the final semi-final slot is awarded to the best-ranked runner-up. As Group A contained one more team than the other groups, the result of the Group A runner-up against the Group A fourth-placed team is not taken into consideration. This was Jersey's 7–0 win over the Western Isles.
Knock-out stage
9th place play-off
7th place play-off
5th place play-off
Semi-finals
Bronze medal play-off
Final
Final rankings
Women's
The women's tournament will be two groups of three teams. There were originally to be five teams in one group but on 8 February 2019 it was confirmed that
Gibraltar would take part as an additional entrant.
Womens Football - Internationals Announced
Gibraltar FA. 8 February 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Knock-out stage
5th place play-off
Semi-finals
Bronze medal play-off
Final
Final rankings
References
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External links
Tournament official website2019 Island Games official site
International association football competitions hosted by Wales
2019 in women's association football
2019 in association football
Inter Games Football
Island Games
Sport in Anglesey